Filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya is again after seven years along with his newest movie, uunchai, It is a narrative of 4 pals who’re like household to one another and in keeping with the director all his movies have been about household. In a brand new interview with Humans of Bombay, Barjatya shares what impressed him to decide on filmmaking as a career and likewise revealed that he needed to direct Salman Khan and Bhagyashree starrer, Maine Pyar Kiya. Why did it take so lengthy to work?
At the age of 17, Barjatya watched his father, Raj Kumar Barjatya at work, and have become ‘enchanted’ with the filmmaking course of. But his father was suspicious of him, as he was a ‘shy’ child at school. “Dad wasn’t sure—I was an underconfident kid. I’d sit alone in class, never participate in activities; my teachers didn’t even know my name! So dad’s, ‘Kaise manage karoge?’ Made sense. But this was the first time I felt strongly about something. My heart said, ‘Just take the plunge’,” shared Barjatya.
After finishing highschool, Barjatya didn’t go to varsity and on the age of 19 assisted Mahesh Bhatt within the movie Summary. And from giving the script to the actors to assist with the arrange, I did all the pieces,” shared the filmmaker. When he began out within the Hindi movie trade, Barjatya’s father suggested him, “Take inspiration from your life,” and that is when he determined to make movies about Indian households.
Sooraj Barjatya began writing his first movie, Maine Pyar Kiya, At the age of 21, however the first draft of the script was rejected. “Let me tell you a fun fact, the first script got rejected and it took me 2 years to write a new one.” This was solely the start of his issues. The filmmaker described the journey of constructing Maine Pyaar Kiya as “challenging”. He shared, “At Rajshri, in our manufacturing home, our previous few movies had been flops and we had been struggling financially. None of the actors wished to work with us. And then, at some point, I met a younger man who we rejected after his first display take a look at. But there was one thing about him. So, after 5 months, we bought him on the board. That particular person was Salman Khan.”
The subsequent drawback earlier than Barjatya was ‘cash’. “The script was ready and so was the cast, but there was no money. But we knew the film would work. So, Dad borrowed. The shooting started and we know what happened then – it became an iconic film,” he stated.
Over the years, the filmmaker has produced a number of hit household dramas, however not all of them had been field workplace hits. But Barjatya stated that he doesn’t take a look at the success of his movies on the premise of numbers. He stated, “Over the years, a lot of people have said – ‘We keep going back to your movies.’ It reminds them of simpler times and that’s what I want to keep doing. In fact, my next film, Altitude, is also a film of the same kind – a film on friendship; for everyone! And I don’t want to worry about the numbers. …when people feel joy and hope through my stories, it’s a hit for me!”
Next, Sooraj Barjatya is planning to make a movie with Salman Khan, with whom he has collaborated on movies resembling Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Hum Saath-Saath Hain and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
